Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.